This song by K.D.Lang is about dreaming of spring in cold dark places.

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We know now with the same spring, by this comparison, we will find all objects now can be attributed a mass.

我们现在知道利用相同的弹簧,采用这种比较的方法,就会发现,所有物体都有确定的质量

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Even in the case of this spring, when you pull it, if you pull it to the right by some force.

甚至是在这样的弹簧问题中,当你拉它的时候,如果你用力向右拉

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This is the force exerted by the spring on the mass.

这是弹簧对物体的作用力

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We did the comparison with the elephant or something; a is the second derivative of x and for this problem, when F is due to a spring, we know the force is that by studying the spring.

我们也已经把它与大象或其它东西作过比较,a 是 x 的二阶导数,在这个问题中,F 是由弹簧产生的,我们在讨论弹簧问题时已经知道了力的大小

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This spring is getting squashed on either side, and it'll squash by certain amount x, that depends on your mass, and that x will be turned into a motion of a needle and that'll read your mass.

这个弹簧两边都会受到压缩,压缩量为 x,它由你的质量决定,x 会转换成指针的运动,你从而可以读数

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